The Law of Conservation of Stupid

For the first time since I started this blog, I did nothing for it over the Christmas holiday. For the first time ever.

Let me tell you why.

When I first began this blog, I was a naive newcomer to the world of politics, and it shows. I was mentored by a really awesome blogger who retired the year after I got online. I kept going. Until last year.

Last year, Obama was re-elected. Like many Conservatives, I thought there was no way Obama would win re-election, but the Republicans nominated a nice guy who also happened to be a complete moron. When you have a voting district that goes 100% to one specific candidate, with no opposing votes whatsoever, you might have a problem. Did Mitt Romney question it? No. Did the Republicans question it? No.

Thank you for nothing, Geriatric Old Party.*

Anymore, I don't blog because nothing surprises me anymore. Unions demanding higher wages during a reception? You don't say. Obama raising taxes while families are struggling to get by? No surprise.

Today I was actually surprised by something, which is the only reason I'm back.

Obama's EPA is going to ban D-Con. In case you reacted like me, by staring dumbfoundedly at the computer, you read that correctly. Obama is going to allow the EPA to ban D-Con.

Via Gateway Pundit, who got it from the AP:

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of a dozen rat and mouse poisons sold under the popular D-Con brand in an effort to protect children and pets.

The agency said Wednesday it hopes to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures that occur every year from rodent-control products. Children and pets are at risk for exposure because the products typically are placed on floors.

The agency had targeted a handful of companies two years ago, saying they needed to develop new products that are safer for children, pets and wildlife. All but Reckitt Benckiser Inc., manufacturer of D-Con, did so.

I'm not trying to say that it isn't sad that accidents happen with stuff like rat poison (though since I can find no statistics on deaths caused by rat poison, I'm pretty suspicious), but I smell, pardon the pun, a rat.

Rats and mice carry lots of nasty diseases and as someone who has had to deal with mice before, they are unsanitary, noisy pests. I'm sorry people are careless and accidents happen, but this is something that I would like to call the Law of Conservation of Stupid. It's stupid that he government would take D-Con away. Just because accidents happen does not mean that an effective product should be removed from consumers.

When did we get so pathetic that we need the government to hold our hands for everything? (And where are the statistics on children who have been accidentally poisoned by D-Con, anyway? I'm getting lots of articles about pets, but none about children.)

And what happens when these new products that are 'safer' don't kill mice and rats? What then?
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*I'm aware I called them old twice, but I couldn't find a synonyms for 'useless' or 'foolish' that started with 'O'. Either way, it's time for the Republicans to go the way of the Whig Party.  If they aren't going to stand up to the Democrats, then what do we need them for?

Planned Parenthood Goons Back At It

So first it was the gift certificates for Christmas, now it's the discounts. Yes, the Planned Parenthood goons are back it. Now one of these goons squads has offered a Black Friday discount on their services.

From LifeNews.com:

A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in souther [sic] Florida is offering a black Friday discount — including $10 off a visit to the abortion center today.

Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast offered the special, saying, “Visit our West Palm Beach or Kendall Health Center for special after Thanksgiving savings on Friday, November 23rd.”

Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek noticed the Black Friday discount and responded, “Planned Parenthood brings new meaning to the term, “Black Friday,” doesn’t it?”

This alone ought to cast some doubts into people's minds about the nature of Planned Parenthood.  I have yet to hear of an honest medical center that offers special discounts and gift cards to people. No doctor I know of does things like this. So why does Planned Parenthood offer such discounts? Why offer gift cards? They don't provide mammograms, though they reportedly provide pap smears. They don't provide much beyond birth control and abortions.

So I wonder what it is that they are trying so hard to give away.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello. Yes, I am aware I have been absent for awhile. Life has been crazy, and I don't just mean because of the election either. But it's Thanksgiving, and I have a tradition to keep.

Petra - Thankful Heart



"Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. For His mercy endures forever." Psalm 107:1

I hope you all have great Thanksgiving!

Please note that anonymous comments have now been turned off due to the high volume of spam comments I have been receiving.

Happy Halloween!

It is Halloween again! And you that means: Halloween music!

Monster Mash

Ghostbusters!


Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London*

*Not to be confused with any songs by Kid Rock

And last but not least...

Panic! at the Disco - This is Halloween

Have a happy Halloween! Don't let the ghouls get you.

Never Forget

I don't care that Odrama officially decided to declare today a  'National Day of Remembrance and Service.'  Forget community service. There are 364 other days of the year you do that on. When Romney gets into office, we need to have him overturn the service part.

But anyway, today marks 11 years since 9/11. Obama may be concerned about service, but I'm more concerned about remembering what happened.

"Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire, and her people blown away?
Have you forgotten when those Towers fell
We had neighbors still inside, going through a living hell."

Have you forgotten?

Never forget what happened to this country on that day eleven years ago.

Chick-fil-A and Tolerance

So this last week I learned that my gay friends are not as tolerant as I thought they were. See, Dan Cathy, owner of the Chick-fil-A franchise, came out last week in support of the Biblical definition of marriage. Gasp! Needless to say, liberals were beside themselves with the agony of having to endure anyone who followed Biblical standards. Besides, Cathy somehow managed to insult gays or something, so Cathy is obviously a jerk.

Democrats respond to perceived intolerance with real intolerance. This is, in a nutshell, the difference between liberals and Conservatives. I don't know one Conservative who appreciates, say, Westboro Baptist Church, but we don't go around demanding that they made to be quiet. We all really wish Westboro would go back to wherever they came from and just stay there, and protesting funerals is a new kind of low, but we understand that if we take away Westboro's rights to be a group of jackwagons, then what will stop anyone from taking our rights to freedom of speech? Everyone has the right to say to what they want, within reasonable limits, and being a Conservative you learn early on that all you can do is deal with it.

But liberals don't see it that way. There is only one way of thinking and it's their way. No dissent allowed.

So Cathy was flagellated in the media for having an opinion and not being afraid to say it. Liberal liberal mayors banned Chick-fil-A from their city only to have the ACLU of all groups pipe up and say that the mayors weren't allowed to ban Chick-fil-A. According to CBN:

[T]he ACLU "strongly supports" same-sex marriage, but explained that "if a government can exclude a business for being against same-sex marriage, it can also exclude a business for being in support of same-sex marriage."

Even the ACLU understands. (Incidentally, I haven't any reports of pigs flying - yet.) If the ACLU gets it, I would certainly like to know what's holding other liberals back.

And then there was the support day on the fist of August, which was a smashing success, and then there was the kiss-in response, which was a flop.

But the day after the Chick-fil-A support day, one of my friends on Facebook posting a picture to his wall that said they hoped that when someone who ate Chick-fil-A started choking on thier food, that the only person who knew CPR wasn't gay.

Now, I also support the traditional view of marriage, that is, the Biblical one. Since I learned my friend was gay, however, I have toned down my rhetoric and don't discuss my opinion as much. I haven't backed down from my beliefs, but I try to be considerate of other people. As long as they are not attacking me or my beliefs, there is no point in attacking them.

To be brutally honest, I don't care who you sleep with or why. I don't want to hear about it, regardless. I absolutely condemn homosexuality, but I don't generally condemn those who practice it. You have to attack my beliefs first, before I get riled up. But I have never discussed my views with this friend.

And I was very insulted to see that picture on his wall. Thank you for wishing that I would choke when I eat at Chick-fil-A.

I always thought he was a very tolerant person. It was a quite a shock to discover that I, who hold to beliefs so tightly and see the world very much in black and white, was far tolerant of his beliefs then he was of mine.

I understand that it happens, but is still a mystery to me: why is it that the people who are always talking about tolerance are the most intolerant of all?